Humanities 060 - People & Their World » Fall 2021 » Chapter 34 Quiz

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Question #1
World War I
A.   none of the answers
B.   was a war of attrition that had no justified reason for occurring nor clear winners.
C.   is mislabeled for it was a small short war.
D.   did not involve the United States of America.
Question #2
What does Owens call “The old lie” in his poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est”?
A.   in death there is honor.
B.   none of the answers
C.   Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori… It is fitting and proper to die for one’s country.
D.   war makes cowards of us all.
Question #3
T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Wasteland” presents
A.   the death of Western civilization as evidenced by The Great War.
B.   the themes of loss and a hope for redemption.
C.   a poem structured like a collection of individual poems
D.   All of the answers are correct.
Question #4
The art of George Grosz
A.   none of the answers
B.   applauds the German military and its government.
C.   glorifies the trench warfare that World War I consisted of.
D.   is an imaginative blend of social criticism and social satire through caricatures.
Question #5
The Great Depression
A.   is a time period when a large portion of the world was diagnosed with depression by Sigmund Freud.
B.   inspired literary and visual art that described economic oppression and misery.
C.   none of the answers
D.   created a movement of art that focused on an alternate utopian reality.
Question #6
Diego Rivera is known for
A.   none of the answers
B.   art that is abstract and aloof.
C.   paintings that glorify the elite of Mexican society.
D.   murals that capture the vitality and futility of the Mexican Revolution that involved the active participation of peasants and urban workers.
Question #7
Heller’s novel Catch 22
A.   demonstrates the benefits of the massive war effort created for WWII.
B.   none of the answers
C.   is a clear example of the use of gallow’s humor in the service of satire.
D.   details WWII in the same epic and heroic fashion of the Greek classics.
Question #8
Wiesel’s memoir Night
A.   depicts his terrifying experiences as Jew in Nazi Germany.
B.   is a surrealistic retelling of one man’s dreams.
C.   none of the answers
D.   is an epic poem that was written as a response to T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Wasteland.”
Question #9
Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica
A.   is a political response to the tragedy that occurred in the small pueblo of Guernica, Spain perpetrated by the German air force on behalf of the Fascist dictator Franco.
B.   captures the grim brutality and suffering of the wartime era during the Spanish Civil War.
C.   distills the imagery and language that he created with cubism to place a spotlight on the barbarism of modern warfare.
D.   All of the answers are correct.
Question #10
Leni Riefenstahl was a talented German filmmaker
A.   was a woman
B.   created film images that are still widely and commonly used today in films about heroes and in televised sports programs.
C.   All of the answers are correct.
D.   who used her talents in the service of German propaganda.

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